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Leading Thoughts for May 2, 2024

Michael McKinney

Mentally rehearsing a new way that you might behave in the face of adversity activates the prefrontal cortex, and your imagined activities begin firing neurons and wiring them into brain patterns that can be activated whenever they’re needed. Source: Get Out of Your Own Way: The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone’s Expectations II.

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Leading Thoughts for March 28, 2024

Michael McKinney

Executive coach Daniel Harkavy on the core coaching competency of discernment: “Discernment refers to the ability to see what is not visible, to understand what is not being said. In a democracy, we’re working on something together, so the tension that comes with association must be held by everyone. And where do you get discernment?

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

The first thing I did was to be intentional and methodical about it, by asking the two people I knew to please sit down and suggest 5 to 10 people for me to meet — an they did a number of email intros for me. And that’s how I ended up being exposed first to concepts like retention curves, DAU/MAU, viral loops, and so on.

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Get ready to meet one of the #SHRM22 powerhouse speakers, Pegine Echevarria

SHRM Organizational Development

It was my intention to make a difference with my participation. You may not be aware, but as influencers for #SHRM22, we get to pick and choose who to interview for these blog entries. When I accepted the invitation and took on the challenge of becoming one of the #SHRM22Influencer members, I did not do so lightly.

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Mastering Search in a Niche Space | William Vanderbloemen

Peter Winick

William shares his journey into thought leadership, starting with his blog on how to build, run, and maintain a great team. With so many contributors to the content pool, it would be easy to get off track. This blogging thing is new. Now you could go out and be the greatest pastor ever is as it relates to the work.

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Leading Thoughts for January 11, 2024

Michael McKinney

Professor Nigel Nicholson on the challenge of the other perspective: “Leaders need to remember the risks of the self-centered perspective, and the insights that can be gleaned by getting into a mental helicopter to rise above this view to understand the relativity of where people’s views emanate from.

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Starting Thought Leadership Early | Vaishali Dialani

Peter Winick

She goes beyond people she has met in person and explains what you should be looking for in a contact before reaching out. Finally, Vaishali shares how growing up in India and being from a blended family gives her unique perspectives that she uses to enhance her Customer Experience (CX) work. And super excited to be here today.

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